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TFS Integration Platform – Getting Started with a slightly revised hands-on-lab (HOL)

The review of our Getting Started manual for the hands-on-lab (HOL) at TechReady, an internal technical Microsoft event, has highlighted that the Getting Started manual is limping behind the latest release of the TFS Integration Platform tooling. Naming Read More...
Posted Friday, March 19, 2010 4:49 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration PLatform – I have just moved my VC content, now I want to sync from a specific snapshot … now what?

Scenario As shown above we have a hypothetical situation or scenario of a Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 on the left. By using the Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide or any other manual migration process we move a project from the TFS 2008 server Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:23 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Translation Service … how does it work? Part 2

We have had a few moments of confusion in recent adapter development around the translation service and this post continues from Translation Service … how does it work? in an attempt to clear up some of the last dust storms. The area I would like to focus Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:29 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Moving away from the TIP Heteronym

Huh Heteronym ? Looking it up answers.com I found “A heteronym is word that is spelled and sounds the same but has different meanings”. Huh TIP ? We all love or hate acronyms and in the world of TFS Integration Platform the TIP acronym is crept in to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:14 PM by willys | 1 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – A new administrative era is upon us …

If you have tackled the Getting Started (Basic Scenario) from our hands-on-lab (HOL) material, which you can get from here http://www.codeplex.com/TFSIntegration , or watched the Basic and Advanced Scenario videos on the same site, you would have surely Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:33 PM by willys | 1 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Getting to grips with the new configuration options

We are working on creating a readiness package for the TFS Integration Package, which includes a usage document from Hyung for some of the new features … all of which we will quickly mention in this blog post. Let me know if you want/need more information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:44 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform Codeplex Downloads Consolidated (improved)

When you visit the Codeplex site at http://www.codeplex.com/TFSIntegration you will not that the download page s have been consolidated to a download page, which combines all of the various bits on one common page. We are responding to numerous requests Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:39 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Aligning the terminology we use for migrations

We have just updated the installation and the associated documentation and guidance for the TFS Integration Platform on http://www.codeplex.com/TFSIntegration . The release is targeting Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 Release Candidate (RC) and addresses Read More...
Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 12:13 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Innovation continues to roll into the platform

Some of the latest exciting innovations that have been baked into the TFS Integration Platform and that you will start noticing when you use the forthcoming builds on http://www.codeplex.com/TFSIntegration : MigrationConsole When a configuration of the Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:01 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – The videos have finally arrived :)

Last year we reported in the making of the TFS integration Platform videos in post http://blogs.msdn.com/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2009/10/06/brian-the-video-guru.aspx . It took a while to find the editing time, but we are finally pleased to announce Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 06, 2010 1:51 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Notice: Interface change in latest drop of the platform and guidance

Context Interfaces are immutable … well, in the case of the IServerPathTranslationService interface we broke this rule and introduced a new method that allows the platform to pass the session configuration to be passed to the Translation Service, as is Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:26 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Translation Service … how does it work?

Ever had the feeling that you think you understand something, but have this eerie feeling that perhaps you have missed the boat? Well, it dawned on me recently that my brain started clogging up when trying to understand how translation service in the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 22, 2010 6:43 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Explicit versus Implicit field mapping in the config … huh? Question & Answer 21

Special thanks to Terry and Huyng from the TFS Integration Platform team for input and reviewing of this post! First of all let us clarify the difference between implicit and explicit in the context of field mapping, because this on its own has numbed Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:32 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Minor guidance refresh, with updated contact references

We have just published a minor guidance refresh to detailed guidance , which includes a revised Migration Guidance document and Migration Guidance poster. … poster now included in downloads. If you have questions or issues with the TFS Integration Platform Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:22 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Remember to set “copy local” reference properties to FALSE … why: Question & Answer 20

In a recent custom adapter development we stumbled across another weird run-time error, which became even more obscure as we started discussing,  debugging and troubleshooting the phenomena: The exception which is relevant in the above screen snippet Read More...
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 11:21 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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